Seafood salad

Seafood salad can be made with various fish and shellfish, depending on what’s available. My preference is a mixture of prawns or lobster, squid, cuttlefish or octopus, scallops and perhaps some clams, mussels or razor clams to give it a bit of a lift. If you are struggling to get hold of such fish, then a couple of lightly cooked fillets of red mullet or gurnard give a good colour to the salad.

Samphire, just dipped in and out of boiling water, provides perfect crunch and colour; i